I Exposed Phone Snatching on London’s Streets | In Too Deep | Channel 4 Documentaries

David Navarro goes inside the phone snatching epidemic in Britain and carries out a bold social experiment to see if he can get a phone stolen and track down its snatcher.

Across Britain’s streets, phone snatching has reached epidemic levels. With up to £50million phones stolen last year and up to 200 snatches per day in the UK, London is ground zero of the phone snatching epidemic. We meet the modifiers who are modifying e-bikes to be the perfect snatching vehicle, and the snatchers who risk everything to snatch your phone. David recruits a group of people to carry out a bold social experiment. Standing as pedestrians on London’s streets with camera-rigged phones, can they get a phone stolen and see what the snatchers do with them?

00:00 Intro
01:04 Phone snatching reaching epidemic levels
01:40 Rigging the phones
02:28 Meeting e-bike mechanic
05:02 Test phone snatched in Shoreditch
06:22 Phones in tin foil
06:54 Ex-snatcher
08:20 Current snatcher
09:50 Finsbury Park, start of experiment
10:50 The teams go out onto streets of London
13:04 Attempted snatch
14:55 Phone snatched
16:44 Tracking the snatched phone
18:34 After the experiment

In partnership with Creative Wales
Presented by David Navarro
Producers: Aisha Von-Nahmmacher and Shay Oluyinka
Editors: Joe Sullivan and Liam Dowler
Colourist: Theodore Swaddling
Motion Graphics: Zach F Evans
Sound Mixer: Nick Davies
Shooting Director: Joe Sullivan
Head of Production: Andie Clare
Executive Producer: Alan Hayling
Producer / Director: Martin Read